Opinion
Why Britain Must Give Venezuela Back Its Gold
On 24th June, two massive earthquakes measuring 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude struck within seconds of each other just off the […]
Tony Burke
Tony Burke is President of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions; a former assistant general secretary of Unite; Trade Union co-ordinator for the Morning Star newspaper and chair of the Campaign For Trade Union Freedom. He is a contributing editor of Left Foot Forward blogging on trade, international issues and workers’ and union rights. As well as LFF, he contributes to the Morning Star, Campaign For Trade Union Freedom website, and his own Power In A Union site.
Labour unions and the US presidential election
'Trump is on the back foot and US unions are now openly fronting up their members and their families to vote for Harris.'
The EU’s signal that it may be ready for closer ties with a Labour government can only be a good thing
With growing opposition among UK voters to Brexit, the damage it has done and an increase in ‘buyers remorse’ any improvements to relations with the EU should be popular in the EU itself.
The Tories’ plans are a major threat to every aspect of employment, health and safety law
'The scrapping of record keeping means the regulations on long working hours effectively become unenforceable.'
An outline agreement between the EU and USA shows why Brexit is a failure
The UK seems well behind the curve on green industrial policy and is increasingly left standing watching on the sidelines.
What happened to all the trade agreements Brexiteers promised?
Many of the agreements are ‘continuity’ or ‘rollover’ agreements, which replicate the deals we already had previously as members of the EU.